The Gentleman's Guide to Passages South: The Thornless Path to Windward

This is the Tenth and last Edition of the popular directions for sailing south to the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

For more than twenty years Van Sant repeatedly surveyed nearly 200 anchorages between Florida and South America. He racked up well over 80,000 sea miles doing it, mostly single-handed. Why? You'll find some interesting answers in his book of stories, Margarita Cat, but essentially, he did it because he liked doing it.

Sailing up and down the chain of islands so much and so often, h...